Timeline for My coworker created a 96 columns SQL table
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| Mar 18, 2011 at 12:39 | comment | added | Evan Plaice | -1 there are perfectly valid reasons for using a denormalized data table. For instance, what if you needed to shard it across many servers because the dataset grew too large or you need extremely low latency access time (say goodbye to using joins). | |
| Jan 8, 2011 at 13:51 | comment | added | user1249 | not necessarily ego, but why should you change? The new stuff must be vastly better to "pay" for the time and effort spent in using it. | |
| Dec 11, 2010 at 15:02 | comment | added | Job | Perhaps big flat files is what they need in the first place ;) ? | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 21:17 | comment | added | webbiedave | Really? The average developer does this? Yikes. | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 18:46 | history | edited | ChaosPandion | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 1 characters in body |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 17:47 | comment | added | Chris | Sometimes it takes proof to convince someone who is already convinced they are right. +1 | |
| Oct 25, 2010 at 17:14 | history | answered | ChaosPandion | CC BY-SA 2.5 |